HIV-positive man had sex with teen in exchange for drugs, deputies say

Clarence Terry, 58, is charged with 16 counts of sexual assault and one count… (The Palm Beach County Sheriff's…)

January 27, 2014|By Brittany Shammas, Sun Sentinel

A 58-year-old, HIV-positive man had sex with 16-year-old girl in exchange for heroin, crack cocaine and painkillers, deputies say.

Clarence Terry, of Lake Worth, was arrested Sunday and booked into the Palm Beach County Jail, where he's being held without bail, records show. His arrest came a day after the victim and her mother went to the Sheriff's Office and reported Terry, according to an arrest report.

The girl told deputies it started when he and three other men came to her house to help her family move. Terry, who she had known for four or five years, asked her if she was using. She told him she was taking Dilaudid, a painkiller. He offered her black tar heroin, and though she told him she didn't like to use it, she kept it.

The next day, Terry shocked the girl by coming into her room and kissing her, the report said. A week later, he asked for her to perform a sex act on him, and she did.

In all, the two traded sex acts for drugs at least 16 times, including having intercourse five or six times. Terry used a condom some of the times, according to the report.

He never asked for money for the drugs – only sex – and asked the girl if she would be willing to also have sex with his other drug buyers. She told deputies she said no.

Saturday night, the girl conducted a controlled call with Terry and he was recorded acknowledging that the two had sex. On Sunday, deputies stopped him as he left his house on the 900 block of North J Street. He made "spontaneous utterances" about being HIV positive, the report said.

Terry declined to talk to a deputy without a lawyer. He was charged with 16 counts of sexual assault with a 16- or 17-year-old and one count of having sex while infected with HIV without informing his partner.